Computing dependent and conflicting changes of business process models
US10223651B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 26, 2012 |
| Grant date | Mar 5, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 12, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/067
- WIPO fieldIT methods for management
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Changing a business process model involves several aspects: (1) given a set of change operations, dependencies and conflicts are encoded in dependency and conflict matrices; (2) given a change sequence for a process model M, the change sequence is broken up into subsequences such that operations from different subsequences are independent; (3) given a change sequence for a process model V1 and another change sequence for a process model V2, conflicts between operations in the different change sequences are determined; (4) the process structure tree can be used to localize dependency computations, yielding a more efficient approach to determining dependencies; and (5) the process structure tree can be used to localize conflict computations, yielding a more efficient approach to determining conflicts.
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